Florida man Ezra James was briefly jailed after a neighbor reported him for allegedly trapping and lighting a raccoon, like these, on fire for eating his mangoes. An officer arrived and shot the raccoon. James faces an animal cruelty charge. Miami Herald File

Florida man Ezra James was briefly jailed after a neighbor reported him for allegedly trapping and lighting a raccoon, like these, on fire for eating his mangoes. An officer arrived and shot the raccoon. James faces an animal cruelty charge. Miami Herald File

Police said they were called to the man’s Palm Bay home at around 11 a.m. Thursday, where they say James had trapped a raccoon in a metal cage, poured gasoline on it and lit it on fire, Palm Bay Daily reported.

“The raccoon was still alive, completely burned, the skin was pulled back from the feet from the burns,” an officer who arrived at the scene wrote in a report obtained by the paper.